Nilson Sant'Anna

TL;DR: Artificial neural network and stepwise regression based predictive models are investigated, aiming at offering alternative methods for those who do not believe in estimation models and indicate that these techniques are competitive with the APF, SLIM, and COCOMO methods.

TL;DR: Predictive Artificial Neural Network and Regression based models are investigated, aiming at establishing simple estimation methods alternatives and show that artificial neural networks are effective in effort estimation.

TL;DR: Ionospheric weather maps using the total electron content (TEC) monitored by ground based GNSS receivers over South American continent, TECMAP, have been operationally produced by INPE´s Space Weather Study and Monitoring Program (Estudo e Monitoramento Brasileiro de Clima Especial, EMBRACE) since 2013.

TL;DR: In this paper, the total electron content (TECMAP) was used to monitor the equatorial ionosphere plasma bubbles over the South American continent by mapping the TECMAP using data provided by ground-based GNSS receiver networks.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that AM, when applied as a patch onto the liver surface, is useful for treating well-established cholestatic fibrosis, and the mechanism was partly by means of downregulating the profibrotic factor TGF-β1 and IL-6.